History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

{Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813}

Thomas Jefferson

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The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

Simón Bolívar

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[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Charles Darwin

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[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.

Emil Heinrich du Bois-Reymond

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Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.

José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero

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During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

Hermann von Helmholtz

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He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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